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Foxconn and Sharp Corporation jointly operate two manufacturing plants specializing in large-screen televisions in Sakai, Osaka. In August 2012, it was reported that Sharp, while doing corporate restructuring and downsizing, was considering selling the plants to Foxconn. The company was believed to be receptive to the plan.
Gou is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. [1] Founded in 1974, Foxconn grew to become an international business empire, becoming the largest private employer and exporter in mainland China with a workforce of 1.2 million. [2]
Wang Laichun is the company's chairwoman, and co-founder. [2] Wang founded Luxshare after ten years at Foxconn. Her brother, Wang Laishen, is Luxshare's vice chairman and is also ex-Foxconn. [3] Wang Laichun's leadership style is seen as similar to Foxconn's Terry Gou. [4] Luxshare was founded in 2004 in Dongguan, China.
Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. (Fii; Chinese: 富士康工业互联网; pinyin: Fùshìkāng Gōngyè Hùliánwǎng) is a publicly listed company that engages in the manufacture and sale of electrical equipment that includes telecommunications equipment, cloud computing equipment, precision tools and industrial robots.
The 2010 suicides prompted 20 Chinese universities to compile an 83-page report on Foxconn, which they described as a "labor camp". Interviews of 1,800 Foxconn workers at 12 factories found evidence of illegal overtime and failure to report accidents. The report also criticized Foxconn's management style, which it called inhumane and abusive. [34]
In 2013, Belkin purchased Linksys, a Cisco network hardware company that specializes in wireless connectivity. As of 2021, the Linksys business is now a subsidiary of Foxconn Interconnect Technology and Fortinet. [8] [9] [6] In 2016, Phyn, a home water management tech brand, was created by Belkin in a joint venture with water solutions company ...
As the principal manufacturer of products and components for Apple, Taiwanese company Foxconn employed 1.4 million China-based workers in 2013. The workers are part of China's "floating population" of 200 million migrants, at the bottom of what Taiwanese tech entrepreneur Stan Shih calls "the smiling curve".
Hisense Group Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational major appliance and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong province. [3] Televisions are the main products of Hisense, and it is the largest TV manufacturer in China by market share since 2004 [4] and was the world's fourth-largest TV manufacturer by market share in the first half of 2023 [5] and the second-largest by ...